Job summary
- Main area
- Psychology
- Grade
- NHS AfC: Band 8a
- Contract
- Permanent: 0.5
- Hours
- Part time - 18.75 hours per week (0.5WTE)
- Job ref
- 395-PP161-24
- Employer
- NELFT NHS Foundation Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- NELFT Headquarters, CEME Innovation Centre
- Town
- Rainham
- Salary
- £50,952 - £57,349 pa pro rata
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 01/08/2024 23:59
Employer heading
Senior Practitioner Psychologist/ CBT therapist - Staff Support
NHS AfC: Band 8a
Joining #TeamNELFT means you’ll become part of a welcoming and supportive working environment. We’re CQC rated Good, and we want you to join us on the journey towards an Outstanding rating. NELFT has sites across North East London, Essex, Kent and Medway. We provide community and mental healthcare services to adults and children within these areas.
The Trust has award winning equality and diversity initiatives and staff health and wellbeing activities. We invest heavily in your development, because when you are valued and supported, we provide the best care to our patients. We are a Level 3 Disability Confident Leader, have been featured in the Working Families Top 10 Employers benchmark for three consecutive years, and we have achieved a Carers UK Level 1 Accreditation. Along with our staff networks and training opportunities, we work hard to embed a just and compassionate culture here at NELFT.
Find out more about NELFT careers and what makes our Trust a great place to work, in this video
Job overview
This is an exciting opportunity to work in the newly developed Here for Staff, support service. The service was set up as part of the suicide prevention strategy and the successful candidate will work across the Trust to offer support, consultation, guidance, and brief therapeutic interventions for staff and teams.
For more information, please contact Dr Sarah Shillingford at [email protected].
Main duties of the job
- Supporting managers to offer a consistent approach following a patient or staff safety incident.
- Providing support to staff following suicides, serious investigation processes and legal proceedings
- Ensuring a consistent model of supportive/debrief sessions following patient and staff safety incidents.
- Offering parity of offer to all staff, including bank and agency workers
- Using suitable data to capture the experience of affected staff.
Working for our organisation
NELFT is an innovative and creative NHS Trust, committed to creating a Just and Compassionate culture for staff and patients alike. It recent increased investment in staff support is good evidence of this.
It is conveniently located between London and Essex, so is an easy commute for many people. whilst here you will have the opportunity to develop your own skills and interests further and this is actively encouraged. you will receive good support and supervision and will be joining a family of psychological practitioners.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
- To provide a highly skilled psychological staff support service for staff and teams within NELFT involving: brief NICE endorsed individual and group psychological interventions and psychoeducation.
- To employ core professional skills in using outcome measures and risk assessments.
- To provide psychoeducation to staff groups for preventative measures (such as stress management). These could include one off group sessions, or up to 8 designated sessions.
- To facilitate critical post-incident support for individuals and teams.
- To work flexibly and independently, as an autonomous clinical practitioner, with the support of Staff Support service colleagues.
- To actively support reduced waiting times for staff and teams referred for support.
- To offer advice and consultation on staff psychological care to psychology and non-psychology colleagues, working autonomously within professional guidelines and the overall framework of the service’s policies and procedures.
- To work closely with managers and teams, and in this capacity to offer consultation, training and supervision to non-psychology staff when required.
- To work closely with other colleagues in in NELFT, to be able to demonstrate a high standard of clinical skill, multidisciplinary engagement and flexibility.
- To utilise research skills for audit, policy and service development and research,
- To enhance the psychological profile of staff support by attending and contributing both to in-house meetings and external specialist interest groups.
- To deliver a culturally and ethically sensitive, equitable psychological service to all groups regardless of race and ethnicity, age, gender, sexual orientation, culture, religion, and disability; to include staff users in the design and delivery of the service.
Person specification
Education
Essential criteria
- HCPC registration as a psychological practitioner or BABCP registered practitioner
Desirable criteria
- Additional specialist training in advanced therapy skills, such as CBT, EMDR, Mindfulness
Interest
Essential criteria
- Interest in working with staff teams post critical incident, and who are often highly stressed
Desirable criteria
- Interest in developing new skills and techniques that are shown to be effective in staff support
Experience
Essential criteria
- At least two years post-qualification experience of specialist psychological assessment and treatment of service users within the NHS.
- At least two years post-qualification experience of delivering psychological interventions to a wide variety of client groups, ages, contexts, and presenting problems
Desirable criteria
- Experience of delivering group/psycho-education work
Teaching
Essential criteria
- Experience of teaching, training, and / or supervision.
Desirable criteria
- Experience of supporting and supervising research projects, audit and service evaluation.
Skills
Essential criteria
- Well -developed skills in the ability to communicate effectively, with staff and other professional colleagues post critical incident and high levels of stress.
Desirable criteria
- Skills in providing consultation to professional colleagues.
Employer certification / accreditation badges
Applicant requirements
You must have appropriate UK professional registration.
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Dr Sarah Shillingford
- Job title
- Consultant Counselling Psychologist
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 07732 402 640
- Additional information
You may also contact Nadya Khokhar, Principal Psychotherapist. [email protected]
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